Ian vs Cory: World Cup Showdown

At the end of our World Cup Previews with Cory from Three Rivers Burgh Blog, we went head-to-head predicting the winners. We'll be keeping a running tally of how both Ian and Cory had done as the World Cup progresses and teams are eliminated or move on in the tournament.

Yesterday, we detailed all the scenarios in play for each group going into the final set of games.

With absolutely no rhyme or reason, I came up with this scoring system for our picks:
- Correctly predict a team reaches the knockout stage + 1 point
- Correctly predict finishing place in group +1 point
- Correctly predict group champion +1 point
- Correctly predict a team in the final 8 +2 points
- Correctly predict a team in the final 4 +4 points
- Correctly predict teams in championship game +6 points
- Correctly predict 3rd place team +8 points
- Correctly predict World Cup Champion +10 points

With that in place, the current standings are:

Ian - 30
Cory - 27

For some unknown reason, when Blogger formats a post, it doesn't understand HTML tables very well. Scroll down to the bottom of the post to see a table of all our picks.

	Ian's Picks	Cory's Picks	Actual Result
Group A Winner	Uruguay	France	Uruguay
Group A 2nd Place	South Africa	Mexico	Mexico
Group B Winner	Argentina	Argentina	Argentina
Group B 2nd Place	Nigeria	Greece	South Korea
Group C Winner	USA	USA	USA
Group C 2nd Place	England	England	England
Group D Winner	Germany	Germany	Germany
Group D 2nd Place	Ghana	Serbia	Ghana
Group E Winner	Netherlands	Netherlands	Netherlands
Group E 2nd Place	Denmark	Cameroon	Japan
Group F Winner	Italy	Italy	Paraguay
Group F 2nd Place	Paraguay	Paraguay	Slovakia
Group G Winner	Brazil	Brazil	Brazil
Group G 2nd Place	Portugal	Portugal	Portugal
Group H Winner	Spain	Spain	Spain
Group H 2nd Place	Chile	Chile	Chile
Final 8	Nigeria USA Netherlands Brazil Argentina England Italy Spain	France USA Netherlands Brazil Argentina Germany Italy Spain
4th Place	Italy	Italy
3rd Place	USA	Brazil
2nd Place	Brazil	Argentina
World Cup Champion	Argentina	USA